denke

From Old High German denken. The long vowel of the past forms does not preserve the original Old High German length, but is due to a secondary, regular lengthening before -ch. (Were it original, would it have developed into /ɔː/.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛŋkə/

denke (third-person singular present denk or denkt, past tense daach or daacht, past participle jedaach or gedaacht)

1. (most dialects) to think

   Dat hatt ich mer allt jedaach, datt dä widder net kütt...

   I’d already thought by myself that he wouldn’t appear yet again...

• The inflected forms with final -t are Moselle Franconian, those without are Ripuarian.

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denke

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of denken

• deken, kende, knede, kneed

denke

1. First-person singular present of denken.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of denken.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of denken.
4. Imperative singular of denken.

Compare German denken, Dutch denken, English think.

denke

1. to think